Combination-tool.



A. PENN.

COMBINATION TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED JULY a, 1908.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

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Mtg/M COMBINATION-TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

Application filed July 6, 1908. Serial No. 442,035.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABNER Fawn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mcriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combination-Tools; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, 1n-

l igure 1 a view in side elevation of a combination tool construction in accordance with my invention and showing the combined cork-screw and uncapping hook in their operative positions. Fig. 2 a plan view of the tool. Fig. 3 a view partly in side elevation and partly in section of one of the modified forms which the tool may assume.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of combination tools designed for opening cans and removing corks and caps from bottles, the object being to produce a simple, compact, reliable and convenient de vice at a low cost for manufacture.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, I form an uncapping-hook 2 at the end of a shank 3 produced by extending, so to speak, the other end of the wire used in making the cork-screw 4, the shank 3 of the book 2 being parallel with the shank 5 of the cork-screw. An eye 6 formed between the shanks 3 and 5 is employed for securing the cork-screw and uncapping-hook in place and receives trunnions 7 struck inward opposite each other from the sheet-metal strap employed to form the handle 8 and fulcrum 9. The can-opening blade 10 of the device extends beyond the fulcrum 9 and is formed with a plate 11 receiving transverse rivets 12 passing through the portions of the strap located between the handle 8 and the fulcrum 9.

To use the tool for the extraction of corks or the removal of caps, the cork-screw is swung into the position in which it is shown in Fig. 1. In using the tool as a cork-screw it is used as any cork-screw would be used. In using the tool as a cap-remover, the fulcrum 9 is rested fiat-wise upon the cap, while the hook 2 is caught under the edge thereof.

111 the modified construction shown by Fig. 3, the uncappinghook is formed at the end of a shank ll. constituting an extension of the eye 15 of the shank 16 of the cork-screw 17, but in this construction the shank 14 is located at a right angle to the shank 16 so that the cork screw is out of the way at the time the tool is being used as a cap-remover.

' I claim 1. In a combination tool for opening sheetmetal cans and removing corks and caps from bottles, the combination with a handle, a fulcrum and a blade; of a cork screw and an unca ping hook formed at the ends of a piece 0 metal bent upon itself to form a loop for the reception of a pivot by means of which the cork screw and hook are pivoted between the said handle and the said fulcrum, whereb the handle serves as an operating-lever or both the hook and the cork-screw, and a protecting casing for the latter.

2. In a combination tool for opening sheetmetal cans and removing corks and caps from bottles, the combination with a handle, a fulcrum and a blade, of a cork-screw formed with an uncapping hook having its shank parallel with the shank of the corkscrew the said cork-screw and uncapping hook being located between the said handle and fulcrum.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ABNER FENN. Witnesses WM. C. MUELLER, HENRY '1. KING. 

